Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1925, Page 6

PAGE SIX THE MAN WHO BROUGHT UP ‘FATHER’ Che Casper Daily Cribune George McManus Earned More in Teens Than Most Boys, But at 21 He Left Home to Walk Streets of New York, Hungry. EVER” buman cluster around the pleasant per: | creator of and “Mag principals in. the greatest comic series wonde yer history and daily visitors | cartconirt are as | ir reception reveals Ises that know no | | The Tribune will aiso | | page form as part of ppeal. u The Tribune. — These popular in distant lands much about the fundamental national boun ginning Sunday bring Jiggs your home in ful a new comic supplement which has no peers in popular and t By MARY STEWART CUTTING, JR. In Everybody’s Magazine for June. The first thing that impresses you about George Mc- Manus, the famous cartoonist, is that his eyes are brown, | and that he has a personality characteristic of those who | are endowed with these big, human qualities. He is sure | and definite, with no cons a quiet, friendly way of meeting you instant recc f the kin he . I thought ot tite mar ’ iousness of himself, and he has with a smile that gives mu gnitior ! NM Through mar strange turt doors leading to m reached hi ice and found work “Bri: This com! t y wife do you do { has never a “I had never thought of pen techni a 4 . {nelud-| 12k until I got on the Republic rag ter S ind in| Mr. McManus continued upward of seven hundred newspa- y of hig ear ! e me differen 6 wo pers throughout the e I fell made a name unequa and of cour them. I I ac ‘as on trial, d develop. Thi newspaper f fter awhile I 1 but brought success. > ~ a Terauseewes thn Math voanve P| He laughed. They'd ask little a ‘oom, just began—in “THE CITY WILL REBUILD BIGGER AND BETTER THAN Ma‘on CM. ANDERA @ SATA BARBARA on two sides, West and wh ipargpntes), ~ ing across Columbus Circle to Cen-|* n I got tk tral Park, where he does much of|!t looked like a crazy quilt—t his work. was a fashion dress just the same. “{ was born in St. Louis," he be-| | 1 asked what he was paid for all He had no car- gan, “and J’'d like to have people| t® fare, | know it, and that I've only been| “When I first went to the Repub-| “1 walked over to the Third a married once and to the same wife} Ncan I drew six dollars a week.| ni) L,/" he sald, “and told for fourteen years, because I've been | When I left, at the end of five years,| man at the ticket window that 1 born, according to repor' 2 every | I was manager of the art dep left my wallet in my suite 8 city in the United State: Canada jand drawing seventy-five from the|at the Gilsey House, and that I had and married in every o: especiall drawing seyenty-ifve from t to get downtown on important bus those cities I've never been in. I rtising department. There iness. I offered him the key to my am forty-two and my father and! @ great deal of night work, and I} rox it was marked with the name mother were Irish, My wife was a| Was tried of it, so I accepted an offer|o¢ th I said I would St. Louis girl, Fun thing—never | from the Post-Despatch. But I stay-|he back in the afternoon with the knew her in St. Lo I met her in] ed with them only two weeks; IJ nickel. He took it and I got to the New York and about a year and a| Wanted to come to New York. I! world, but I didn't sell anything. I half after that we were married.” He | Went, and celebrated my tw couldn't get anything to eat and I pointed to the photograph of a very | first birthday there.” had to walk uptown. Then I had pretty young woman upon his desk,| “Why did you want to come to|to think of a way to pay the man and smiled—he always smiles when | New York? IT asked. who had 1 , so I drew a@ pic he speaks of Mrs. McMs Later,| “I had practical! ture of t t the G he told me that she un Accomp. n yin House handing me five d lished musician Cc er was © 1. O..% 1 rh “I never took a drawing. less n ad not started, and I wanted | liked the picture of himse my life," he said in answer to a to get into the comic me the fi Later on when 1-re question, “Excep' schoo! We y was talking ‘New turagdit 1) paverisns ins Butter’ artes had drawing lessons, and I always| and I was at the age when 1 was 80 | jng got 100, My book was full in an| smart that St. Loufs wasn’t bie toe aie “th hour, and I could wit and loaf while | enough for me," ne ctu Bushee anne the others took the whole term to] “Had you any fdea what you! ® spe Sa Brot rt till theirs. But I was really put out | Would do when you got he fhe AVorid tietaadiie Medes manmicete ot school for drawin ures. ‘The vo, Z hadn't, buteI had alittle! were just. beminning.- The only idea teacher caught me in the class room about twenty-four hundred there: lid. Beenvcr that kind Swas decorating one of tho books, and ad I didn't do any work! wien two new papel Woden othe showed it to my father as a punish-| until I had spent every nickel of It.| Wien ve, menubapers | un ment. He showed it to the editor | I even got rid of my overcoat.” bax ue pd i p 7 mn er of the St. Louis Republican, then| “How long did it take?" matali: Weber boric irutitkecs. meteen asked me how I would like to He looked reflective, “Let's see,’ “ ay rae ar b gt a ont sive up school? The editor had of-|/he answered, "I think about two| md much of the ah eacha fered me a and I went. right| months. I know that that amount | ¥®% Printed in St. Lou BR Pore he! Aa Rage that times |{Wasworth tore than dout mine would be, and though the “ World offered me fifty dollars There was r comeback but I was de u week than the syndicate, I took eee byt elas k, if I never saw the cheap Job to tet th m ks be art assed st nick one, on |2t home in this fashion that I was ter I had been i York several ans} nickel Weaimons, On| oe a ae kuppeaeai it ae e, he slept the night in Park. He seemed to re. it as one of the funniest things that had happened in his life. He could have sent home for money and gotten {t easily, for his father was one of the big theatrical producers the best thing I could have because I was fixed, my de I went father’s visit to St. Louis. We went to cal on the teacher, who was to call on ical where I I was doing, because | iNustrating it Its President’s Son, Amateur Carpenter, Helps Grandfather Shingle-the Barn John Coolidge, only child of the president and his wife, is at Plymouth, Vt., helping his grandfather shingle a barn, before joir:- ing his parents at the summer White House at Swampscott. H-= is of the West, but his pride had kept|my Dad had been wiring to them, him from writing. but I wouldn't tell them anything | Seen at work, This pri arisen at the time |—TI just said the town looked pretty he asked for his first raise, after two | easy to me.” any particular town, for if I drew on the Republican, and had| After six or seven yours with the | one town I'd have to draw them all. given an advance of two dollars id, Mr. McManus went to the He had complained to his paper syndicate where he has|And then no seasons are allowed, who had replied, “If L YoarancTieiialanenn sae summer in some places and not: béen tor me you wand created two comies with | ¥inter in others, The comits come getting that.” From th “Let George Do It,* and | Ut simultaneous!y d have to be up his rat wiswel For the 1a made elght or nin s in ad jent on ans he ‘took /hia,-wife:.as* model vance. You can't anything ae ss : that's timely. Of course you get perers ri ined his present: or- ’ been prophecy whe: elite n Wanted something | tifed of it, like everything you Louts to the effe : : ho ed “Bringing Up {for # living, but when you get an e ly, be for 1 $ He said that ‘Father one that you want to ie 1 that Br . orite chara type pen will ad , : : ei ys it'e J a I | 1 n n r ta } Mr. MeManu: n | | his endeavor ¥ ma r \ morous emphas fficult be e there are #0 18nd to get @ laugh. “Wi r n mor ri us, | mar hins ou can't u For in © once said to me,” he rem: t he would! stance, I can't have too much New| “You have to make 365 laughs a 1, he| York stuff—nothing that includes a|¥eat—one every day. Even it you Gilsey |New York apartment or a janitor, | et them every other day, that's a St re not understood outside of | 182% laughs. There isn’t a show room for| this city. I must find general ideas]? Broadway that has that many— ) pay at] that wili have a universal appeal, |#metimes, not more than fitty.’ ho | because ing Up Father” ts] He said that producing the comic of h w world, | Was a good deal like writing a story, and then turning it into a play, He pays particular at a tion to the detall of his work, and | has been known to tear up a whole | strip of pictures showing ‘Jiggs and his pal, “Dinty Moc in the | Hawalian Islands. He was dissatis | fed with the way he had done the | native costumes or the foliage of | the palm tree Me has books full "4 ‘ ; of sketches of pla s he has visited. For one week only, a few broken lines of tire based on prices before the last “What do you do when are two rises not working?” I asked. +. ‘ ‘TF + m1 hink ut it he laughed. TO CLOSE THEM OUT One of the terrible things about th ne is that ‘ou ne 7—81x4 over Js. ....$16.50 | 82x41 over size......_.. $23.14 IF sh with it. When I wey ines. i . ~ sleep, I feel that I must not w 6—32x4 over wnenn ee $18.78 | 4% over size_________$23.76 the time, #o F get up and work 7— @ over size........25 $19.35 | $32.95 | en are days, when I § alt 2 oes don |. . penian: |e, ds ee eee think without gettir anything 8—82x4 heavy duty_--.---__$20.80 | G6—33x414 heavy duty _-_.__ $27.45 | done, I go home with it still on | my mind, Then somebody drops in Compare these prices, with a good prospect of a further general rise in prices Nesey oof) ick os igh Mag Ma od of 20%. If you need or likely to want any of these sizes, now is the time to Apparently you're not supposed to f think, but I'm doing the hardest work: when 1 appear to be enjoying iz self, Ideas are as insubstantial , %. « thin air. but they are the ¢ 9 and soul of cartooning } ay i 1 wanted to know whe 1c had sf i? ahy unusual habite of wor fe « , 428 SOUTH ELM STREET Seek SES eee : . ' f ink, an he d 4 few of MF, MeManus's cover designs framed, hung on the “No,” he replied, “everything ts fo commercialized | now t you don't have time to be eccentric or work in any weird ay I asked" If he received many let ters, and he replied that the people who wrote work, An He Irishmar in w ere cartoon showing * hind th ing “Hello vidual MeMar Me there ‘Have y we wife ! answ d had I should have if I had it would } idea would comfortable dow could mé enough “What te T thiy are yo asked next “I Uke salt | T nover take about it fir waves toss me spite of m f ter than through if ly k but lt f, anc demonstrate 2 lounge fn the 1 could ¢ 1 show y would ut of nock “My hink 1 my how win pay | joy it.” | ‘Take every actor, even our greatest and most successful comedians, they never consider themselves great ac- tors until they've played a Shakes: pearean part. It's the same way in the comie field. The comfe man never considers himself a great artist until he studies the art of painting. 4 don't care about my name living after me, I’a rather eat now!” I spoke of the success of “Bring: ing Up Father." He said the pub- lic decided, and told me some of its latest developments. The comie-has appeared with the last few months in book form in China and Japan, but when it first ran in the newspapers of those countries there was much anxiety over “Jiggs’s” hunger for corn beef | and cabbage» That dish was un- | known to them. After deliberation they substituted rice for it in the translated captions. However, since the earthquake, large consignments of the American delicacy, in cans, haye found thelr way to the Far East, and “Bringing Up Father’? ts | now unchanged in the book, Four theatrical companies fourteen years have produced a stage version of the comic fn the United States, but last year a Jap anese adapter, seeing {ts enormous ity in Japan, wrote it into 4 play on his own initiative, and found his judgment ‘fully justified in the enthusiasm of the audiences. “Jiggs” has ulso. been welcomed heartily by his own in Dublin, ov two counts—his own personality, pnd for the reason that le is the work of a MeManus. ' for | said ed write immedi- y to Mr. enough t MeMaut Mr. MeManus laughed and he thought the strip had been pub- lished fn every language except, | perhaps, Eskimo! Then he told the | story of the Perrlan rug. | Six years ago, a fugitive copy of | the China Press of Sh has printed “Sringin | for number of years, | ‘Teheran, Persia, and fell into | ds of Ahmad Khan, a Persian | 2 Oxford education. He was | | -| nd art of the cart ng the hope th This was the beginn that meet. correspondence into | . they met | | | and Mr, 5 hmad khan several of his anus ga igit s. among them a cover in colors. B This depicts in ‘court dress ascending a | flight of leading to the g Two girl page s later, a reproduction of | rrived in the shape of a feet long and five wide. | > Mr. McManus. It is ) knots to the equ: a beautiful specimen om the looms celebrated for years _Kazanshaw Net in weaving the fumed amor lenet part o} clation o' plete ru collectors. the Mr. McMan the gift, was urprise of its arriva the two men had been correspondence during months of its making, the never mentioned the rug. ‘These ure a few of Mr. MeManus’s contacts awuy from heme. But ft is in thé United States that he first won the wide reputation that makes his tremendous audience turn to his comie strip in order that the shall begin with a smile, Mr. Me s was brought the atmosphere of the theatre. father was one of the great ma gers In the west of his day, and Mr. MeMunus's voice changes t pride and respect when he sjex) of him, It brings him keen. ple: ure now, to drop into one of the actors’ clubs and meet for the firet time people who s: Why, I knew your father well. The elder MeManus put on plays including the well-known actors, Gus Thomas, Digby Bell, Kyrle Bel jlew, James O'Neil, Henry Dixie, Julia Marlow, Sothern, Reid and Col. lier, Adelina Pat (in concert in St. Louis), Sir Henry Irving and Ellen | Terry, Della Fox, Lillian. Russell, De Wolfe Hopper, and many: others. Mr. MeManus tcok from hiy pock- et a gold match-case which he has arried for years. On one side of it isan Inscription to his father from Henry E. Abbey and Maurice: Grau, who bulit the Metropolitan Opera House, and on the other are four twinkling blue diamonds The story that g with it Is that those twe men presented to West pro- t of wh was a 7 t, for his spirit o7 | fellowship in taking on tour of the Jcountry- the French and Italian | c good Opera Company, composed of the two De Reszkes, Emma Eames, Nor: dica, Sembrich, Melba, and Cam- panini, and refusing to be reimburs- ed. He did this as a favor, as his cn put it, to demonstrate how the show should be put on.’ * George McManus talked about himse. but quite were another person's achievements he were rather than his own. It is seldom that you meet any one of so tre- mendous vogue and so little vanity, He takes his work with a fine ser- fousness, for all his humorous. way |in speaking of it. And it is a serious frankly as if it st of discussing My wife has bee 1 the world she does a great ¢ f ving for me. A 1 fe Nitec village: Wh Lor anding In front of the Savoy ar r and in Paris in f t Hotel 1 meet you thought was dead! + hop girls Reem to } orted from 3} “What ou 1° work, ar a fe 1 ae ati cessful? “Not d to wife,” he replied. e would like to see me doing bigger th s va Sa can’t star? sti!l—you've elther got to 6a forward or backward,’* He went on to give his !dea of —that it on i ‘ within hin self. He sald nil itna oneal a million in one bu HS he'd made it in an slecers to hinwolf job, to be taken with the king of | thought that does away with things that will leave a bad taste. In his |characters “Jiggs and “Maggie,” widely human the victim “of tting caught sa perfect example erity, In her eager- nt advancement. belleves that a m: their MeM s n must give to comie art, whether he feels like it or not, everything he has ali the time, formula for successful cartooning some time ago. It is work—be hum ble—observe—learn and—apply. 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